Movember is the leading charity focused on changing the face of men’s health globally, aiming to fund men’s health projects, challenge the status quo in health research, and transform service delivery to support men. Its efforts target prostate cancer, testicular cancer, mental health, and suicide prevention. Movember works to improve the health of men and boys, their families, and communities with a vision to make an everlasting impact on men’s health. The charity champions healthy behaviors in men, challenges health systems, and confronts gender norms to reduce health inequities and save lives.
The Movember Prostate Cancer Health Equity Initiative is designed to fund projects that help achieve health equity for marginalized and traditionally underrepresented groups of men who are at risk of or living with prostate cancer. The initiative aims to reduce disparities in prostate cancer outcomes by generating new knowledge or strengthening evidence for better adoption and implementation of practices. It focuses on engaging with these priority populations: Black/African American men, men of African and Caribbean descent, Hispanic and Latino men, American Indian/Native American/Alaska Native/Indigenous American men, men living in rural or remote areas, and minority populations based on sexual orientation and/or gender identity. Its areas of focus include improving health literacy, understanding the lived experiences of these populations for more culturally appropriate care, enhancing the use and application of care models for equitable health outcomes, addressing gaps in population-level data, improving treatment or care through artificial intelligence or machine learning, and increasing advocacy for system-level changes in health outcomes. Grants offered range from $100k to $300k over a 24-36 month period, with potential seed funding of up to $10,000 for invited full proposals to aid in resource capacity.